Forecast Details for Rockford, MN

Recent Locations: Rockford, MN

Today: A chance of showers before 1pm, then a chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 58. Breezy, with an east wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Tonight: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 7pm and 4am, then showers likely after 4am. Cloudy, with a low around 42. Breezy, with an east wind around 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Tuesday: Showers. High near 48. Breezy, with an east northeast wind around 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.

Tuesday Night: Showers. Low around 43. East northeast wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Wednesday: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 55. Northeast wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Wednesday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. North wind 5 to 10 mph.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 66. North northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.

Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 43. North northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. Northeast wind around 5 mph.

Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46. Northeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. East wind around 5 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 48. East southeast wind around 5 mph.

Sunday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 69. East southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

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Weather Topic: What is Rain?

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Rain Next Topic: Shelf Clouds

Precipitation in the form of water droplets is called rain. Rain generally has a tendency to fall with less intensity over a greater period of time, and when rainfall is more severe it is usually less sustained.

Rain is the most common form of precipitation and happens with greater frequency depending on the season and regional influences. Cities have been shown to have an observable effect on rainfall, due to an effect called the urban heat island. Compared to upwind, monthly rainfall between twenty and forty miles downwind of cities is 30% greater.

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Weather Topic: What is Sleet?

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Sleet Next Topic: Snow

Sleet is a form of precipitation in which small ice pellets are the primary components. These ice pellets are smaller and more translucent than hailstones, and harder than graupel. Sleet is caused by specific atmospheric conditions and therefore typically doesn't last for extended periods of time.

The condition which leads to sleet formation requires a warmer body of air to be wedged in between two sub-freezing bodies of air. When snow falls through a warmer layer of air it melts, and as it falls through the next sub-freezing body of air it freezes again, forming ice pellets known as sleet. In some cases, water droplets don't have time to freeze before reaching the surface and the result is freezing rain.

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